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MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing CPU, RAM
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Graphics	61.9% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	38% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait times.
Memory	16GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 16GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

System	MSI MS-7917
Motherboard	MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917) (all builds)
Memory	9.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141223
Uptime	1.5 Days
Run Date	Nov 20 '15 at 04:29
Run Duration	162 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz Relative performance n/a - benchmarks incomplete		1-Core 109 2-Core 220 74% 164 Pts	4-Core 376 8-Core 627 61% 502 Pts	64-Core 598 37% 598 Pts
Poor: 67% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Gigabyte(1458 36B6) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.5598 Relative performance (0^th percentile)	61.9% Good	Lighting 115 Reflection 115 Parallax 101 94% 111 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 61.9% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$38 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 16GB free (System drive) Firmware: 521ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 10577667 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 68624987456057 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 172 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 22 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 24 32 77311508504 (C2) HDA temperature 24 32 77311508504 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 10577667 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 10577667 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 10577667 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 1094 (EA) Unknown 0 0 1097 (F1) Unknown 0 0 1097 (F2) Unknown 0 0 1945	38% Below average	Read 166 Write 85.3 Mixed 103 26% 118 MB/s	4K Read 16.7 4K Write 89.6 4K Mixed 8.84 84% 38.4 MB/s	DQ Read 18.3 DQ Write 86.9 DQ Mixed 8.39 19% 37.8 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 38% Great: 73%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2TB free Firmware: CC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 187897744 (03) Spinup time 92 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2646 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 60 8594118541 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3563 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 604 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 46 437387289 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 424 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 93 93 14323 (C2) HDA temperature 25 54 68719476761 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 48713519071689 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1982514252 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2216347974	106% Outstanding	Read 184 Write 185 Mixed 173 136% 180 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.59 4K Mixed 0.33 91% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 113%
Fujitsu MJA2500BH G2 500GB 1,681 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 466GB free Firmware: 00400018 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 200295 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 72941568 (03) Spinup time 100 100 1 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 3692 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 9019431321600 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 2720 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 7434 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3399 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 260 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 44583 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 249109086233 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 17946 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 935067648 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 1 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 253 20 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 32625 (CB) Run out cancel 100 100 2628562847142 (F0) Head flying hours 200 200 0	43% Average	Read 76.6 Write 73 Mixed 74.9 56% 74.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.27 4K Mixed 0.33 82% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 43% Great: 47%
Apple HDD TOSHIBA MK5065GSXF 500GB 626 User benchmarks, average bench 35% 465GB free Firmware: GV201B Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 2195 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 3248 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 3499 (0A) Spinup retry count 164 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1606 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 16253 (C0) Power-off retract count 97 97 1556 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 78 78 220262 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 206159544344 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 8276 (DE) Loaded hours 95 95 2352 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 344 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0 (FE) Unknown 100 100 766	44.6% Average	Read 79.3 Write 76.1 Mixed 73.8 58% 76.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.53 4K Mixed 0.32 83% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 44.6% Great: 44%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop

Desktop 84%

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Workstation

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917)

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	3,385x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	1,665x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	457x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	1,245x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	559x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	406x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	414x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	306x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	207x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	376x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	248x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	206x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $648

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Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16

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